Israeli attacks kill 3 in Gaza; teen shot dead in West Bank raids

Nov 17, 2025 News

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(AL-JAZEERA) At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in southern Gaza on Sunday. A young Palestinian teen was also killed by Israeli fire during a raid on the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus, the Palestinian Red Crescent told Al Jazeera.

Israeli forces also shot a young Palestinian man as they raided the camp located south of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank – before preventing the paramedics from assisting him.

Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, Sanad, has verified two videos posted to Telegram from the shooting. One shows a young man, injured by Israeli forces, lying on the ground while surrounded by a number of soldiers.

A second verified video shows a large bloodstain on the ground in the shape of a human body.

Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that three young men were injured in the raid, but ambulance crews were only allowed to treat two of them – a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, both of whom received shrapnel wounds.

Citing security sources, Wafa said Israeli forces “arrested” the third boy after he was shot and refused to let ambulance crews near him.

Despite the ceasefire that was meant to unleash a flow of aid into Gaza, restrictions on trucks carrying food and other assistance, especially if linked to UNRWA, remain in place, says Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA’s director of communications.

“UNRWA is under double the amount of scrutiny and restrictions than other agencies despite being the largest agency there,” Alrifai said, adding that the UN agency has enough supplies to fill 6,000 aid trucks from its warehouses in Egypt and Jordan.

On top of that, the limited number of crossings into Gaza means there are long queues of trucks waiting to enter.

There are also limitations on what is allowed into the enclave as the Israeli authorities label certain essentials as items of dual use, saying they could be used for military purposes, and therefore ban them, Alrifai said.

“Israel, during the inspection and the scrutiny, would take out many items that are extremely needed, especially in this winter situation.”

Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian prisoners are being held indefinitely in an underground Israeli detention facility, deprived of sunlight and subjected to extreme violence, Palestinian lawyers say, as more reports of abuse emerge from the devastation of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Lawyers for Palestinians held at Rakevet, an underground wing of the Ramla (Nitzan) prison complex in central Israel, said their clients have been assaulted, starved, and denied medical care despite serious injuries.

“When the prisoners arrive for the interview [with their lawyer], their faces show what they’ve endured,” lawyer Nadia Daqqa told Al Jazeera. “Particularly in this prison, prisoners are afraid to talk. The [interview] room is one square metre and the guards refuse to leave.”

Despite that, Daqqa and other lawyers have collected testimonials from prisoners held at Rakevet.

One detainee, referred to by the initials YH, had a broken jaw, shoulder and ribs, yet had received no medical treatment. Another, known as KHD, said Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs”.

The reports are the latest to detail wide-scale abuse in Israel’s prison system, as the country has ramped up its arrests of Palestinians amid its two-year genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

More than 9,200 Palestinians are currently detained in Israeli prisons, according to the latest figures from Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer. The majority are in what’s known as administrative detention, held without charge or trial.

Scores of detainees from Gaza have also been held in a notorious Israeli military detention camp known as Sde Teiman, where reports of killings, torture and sexual violence, including rape, have been rife since the Gaza war began in October 2023.

While the Israeli authorities have denied allegations of abuse, Palestinian prisoners who were recently released from the facilities as part of last month’s Gaza ceasefire deal described harrowing abuses.

The bodies of slain Palestinian detainees returned to the coastal Palestinian enclave under the ceasefire agreement also showed signs of torture, mutilation and execution, with some returned with ropes still tied around their necks.

Several human rights groups in Israel have described the country’s prisons and detention facilities as a form of torture and cruel and unusual punishment.

“Human rights organisations documented widespread abuses, including physical beatings, sexual violence, harassment, and threats – pointing to systemic and deliberate mistreatment,” the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) said in June.

The wave of abuse also comes amid a push from within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to harden its policies towards Palestinian detainees.

The death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks since October 2023 has risen to 69,483, the majority of whom are women and children, Wafa news agency is reporting.

Another 170,706 people have been wounded, with many victims still trapped under the rubble.

In the last 72 hours, Gaza’s hospitals have received the bodies of 17 individuals: Two new victims and 15 bodies retrieved from the rubble, as well as three wounded people.

Since the start of the ceasefire agreement last month, at least 266 people have been killed and 635 wounded by Israeli attacks.

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